Life In America Really Is Nasty, Brutish, And Shorthttp://www.businessinsider.com/how-americans-stack-up-in-dying-from-violence-war-suicide-and-accidents-2013-1/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:50:28 -0500Wolf Richterhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f3f872ecad04805300005dTheBigRaguMon, 14 Jan 2013 07:22:10 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f3f872ecad04805300005d
Maybe you should be asking our giant,corrupt, police state government that has launched their endless "war on terror" where the "evil" people live.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f0a4a669bedd8060000008Bruce MillerFri, 11 Jan 2013 18:47:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f0a4a669bedd8060000008
America where the lock up the guns so the loonies can switch to other mass murder weapons, but leave the loonies running the streets!
Ameica! solution to your problem: Better Mental Health care! better social screening! Huh?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f047e7ecad046866000046bdbrFri, 11 Jan 2013 12:12:07 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f047e7ecad046866000046
The reason no one gives your notion of "ridding the world of evil" any credit is that it is subjective, self-serving, and pointless. How exactly do you plan to identify the "evil" people, and how exactly do you plan to "rid the world" of them?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f0474769bedd8675000007bdbrFri, 11 Jan 2013 12:09:27 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f0474769bedd8675000007
The problem with just looking at numbers is that they have no context. Do the Americans reading this consider their lives "nasty and brutish"? Probably not...and they're probably right. People live very different lives in different parts of America.
The missing context is "who's killing who". Cities that studied gun violence found that the *victims* had criminal records in the vast majority (>70%) of cases. In cities like Baltimore, the victims had very long criminal records. FBI data shows that in over 80% of the murders in America the criminal and victim know each other. About 75% of the murders are in cities (25% suburbs, very little elsewhere).
Studies need to look deeper to really conclude what life is "like" in America. Do the murders correlate to poverty? (as more poor people were displaced from cities to suburbs, suburban crime increased) Do the murders correlate to illegal drug trade? It's very rarely some random "evil person" killing "good people" for no particular person.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f046adecad04d065000003SSFri, 11 Jan 2013 12:06:53 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f046adecad04d065000003
WHY ARE ITALIANS ALWAYS BEING DISSED?
Can't you guys focus on the Jews or the Micks for a change?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f02a8469beddb925000004pd 2417Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:06:44 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f02a8469beddb925000004
This sites anti American articles and slant is becoming annoying. You can not compare violence or
death rates in America to Finland or Japan -( both these nations are homogeneous ). That's all the same
for the average BI reader. I know some of you won't like this but America has Large mostly minority segments that have been on welfare for generations, other groups who come here with no skills or speak the native language -( millions illegally ). The above groups get lumped in with people of all races that came from good upbringing, have jobs and are not in gang infested rat holes.
I would like to know how are numbers compare to the rest of the world if you only counted people not
on government assistancehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f025d6ecad048025000006agFri, 11 Jan 2013 09:46:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f025d6ecad048025000006
30 years of Raygunomics will produce some serious nasty.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f01fb16bb3f7127b00001bhammermanFri, 11 Jan 2013 09:20:33 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f01fb16bb3f7127b00001b
the problem with the melting pot is it's more of a mixed salad where there are many individuals that are just sharing the same ideals..
people here hate each other and find any reason to fight or argue...then at the same time people who just want to rid the world of evil are viewed as weak and "against freedom"...
income tax + sales tax + excise tax and all the little special SS, medicare, etc = about 40% of your total income. It's like we have a socialism structure but no benefits of it....
I dont mind paying an extra 2% in income tax if gun crime, health care cost or cost of goods go down...but sadly reality is....we pay more...we recieve left...only the privledged few in america are really living an "american dream" everyone else is living in a state of transition to hopefully get there...hope is the only stronger thing than fear....essentially live in USA is stresstfull and then u die...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f01b0a69beddfa7c000014ZlaticelliFri, 11 Jan 2013 09:00:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f01b0a69beddfa7c000014
Life in America isn't real. This is a unique experiment in my opinion.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f01a72ecad04dc11000008ChrisRossiniFri, 11 Jan 2013 08:58:10 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50f01a72ecad04dc11000008
Hobbes couldn't have been more wrong.
For the U.S. has the largest (by many magnitudes) State and Empire in the history of the world.